My Music
My music has been a labor of love. When I first started recording, it was another way of expressing myself. I was infatuated with art but when I started singing and recording, music became my favorite expression. I was a shy kid and not very popular, so I spent lots of time at both arts.
Lonely Blue Nights
After Angel Baby my guitar player Noah and I were asked to go to New York by Jackie Wilson to record there. We only had a few songs written and we were asked if we could be at the studio at 8 am the next morning to record. They assumed we had a whole album but actually we only had a few. We stayed up all night till about 4am writing the rest of the music for the Lonely Blue Nights album. Noah was about 18 and I was now 16. The album is out of print but thanks to technology and my dear friend Brian Lee who helped me remaster, it is available.
Steppin’ Out in Style
In 1996 my manager and long time friend Gene Davidson and his wife, my dear friend Barbara, kept asking me why didn’t record something. I thought about it some. I was getting a new band together and after we had been working for a while, we felt we were ready so we went to Pat Woertink’s studio in West Covina and just started writing and laying down tracks. Then we all took a break for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I broke my leg at a darn Christmas Parade and that held up the recording till I was at least in a cast. My manager Gene came to the airport to get me and I was in a wheel chair. That took some doing I’ll tell you. Well, my keyboardist and bandleader James Bentley wrote some nice tunes plus together we wrote a few and that’s how Steppin’ Out came together.
The Ultimate Collection
I had some tunes that were written way back and a few that were more recent, but they’d never really been heard so I put them together along with some of the Lonely Blue Night music, a few from Steppin’ Out, and called it the Ultimate Collection. I’m surprised but it’s turned out to be a favorite for collectors everywhere. Thank you everybody!
Angel Baby Revisited
It’s funny but one day I get a call from Ace Records and they asked if they could put most of the songs on the Ultimate Collection on a CD and include some others they thought I’d recorded. It was my song, Angel Baby and Dedicated To The One I Love but in acapella. I said no I didn’t do those; a gal in NY recorded them pretending to be me! Dr. Stallberg of the Los Angeles Doo Wop Society brought it to my attention after he’d been back east for a conference and actually interviewed her. I had forgotten that completely until Ace brought it up again. I just laughed over it when they asked me to record it for the CD. I did those two and then I recorded a nice remake of a real old popular song called Confessing A Feeling in Spanglish for the CD also.